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English
Etymology
fat + head
Pronunciation
Noun
fathead (plural fatheads)
- (derogatory) An idiot; a fool.
You fathead! You forgot to put the milk in the fridge and now it's spoiled!
1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 24:‘We were getting a grand shot of a charging rhino when the cameraman got scared and bolted. The fathead!’
- A cyprinid fish of the Mississippi valley, Pimephales promelas, the black-headed minnow.
- A labroid food fish of California; the California sheephead. Semicossyphus pulcher.
- A blobfish, Psychrolutes microporos
- Any of several species of fish of the genus Cubiceps
Synonyms
Antonyms
- (antonym(s) of "derogatory"): genius
Derived terms
Translations
fish of the genus Cubiceps
References
“fathead”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.